Overdose: Last News

“We lost over 500 people in D.C. last year to overdoses, both people who are intentionally using opioids and people whose drugs are laced with opioids who don’t know it,” says Alexandra Bradley, the outreach and community engagement manager for the D.C.-based harm reduction organization HIPS, Inc., which serves communities impacted by sex work and substance abuse.“We’ve seen fentanyl show up in cocaine and methamphetamine and other drugs, which are stimulants,” notes Bradley.

“We lost over 500 people in D.C. last year to overdoses, both people who are intentionally using opioids and people whose drugs are laced with opioids who don’t know it,” says Alexandra Bradley, the outreach and community engagement manager for the D.C.-based harm reduction organization HIPS, Inc., which serves communities impacted by sex work and substance abuse.“We’ve seen fentanyl show up in cocaine and methamphetamine and other drugs, which are stimulants,” notes Bradley.

Daily Mail.The sexual offense charge carries a maximum penalty of eight years in prison.Zmarzły is currently being held in prison ahead of his next court appearance.According to local media, Zmarzły, the pastor of the church of the Blessed Virgin Mary of the Angels, in Dabrowa Gornicza, Poland, allegedly hosted a small group “party and play” sex session in his apartment with two other men back in September. But one of the men collapsed after overdosing on erectile dysfunction pills.The third man reportedly called emergency services, but when paramedics arrived, they were denied entry to the apartment, according to witnesses.

Gay adult film star Roman Todd has claimed he was clinically dead for five minutes after snorting fentanyl-laced pills earlier this month.Todd, who won the GayVN Award for Performer of the Year back in January, made the stunning announcement during a July 4 livestream with fellow adult film star Cliff Jensen, reportedly a day after the near-fatal overdose.“I should not be here right now,” Todd said during the livestream.Jensen told viewers that Ricky Larkin, another adult film star, allegedly gave Todd the deadly pills, which Todd crushed and snorted in a bathroom stall at the Los Angeles International Airport before collapsing.“If he would have stayed in the bathroom for 20 more seconds and collapsed in the stall,” Jensen said, “they wouldn’t have found him for, what, 20, 30 minutes, an hour until the next fucking shift came through to clean it?“He would have been dead.”Todd was revived by naloxone, sold under the brand name Narcan, a medication used to reverse an overdose from opioids, said Jensen, adding that tests showed fentanyl to be the sole drug in Todd’s system. In a since-deleted Twitter post, Jensen called Larkin a “dirt bag,” to which Larkin responded that Jensen was the one who spent the day with Todd. “I’ll pass a piss test right now- will you?” he wrote.

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